Bachelor of Arts

Drama - unit set code MJ-A000031

Burwood (Melbourne)

This major sequence provides skills in contemporary drama practices and perspectives, together with an understanding of their application in a wide range of artistic and social contexts. It includes acting theory and practice, performance styles and processes, theatre history, text studies, community theatre and technical studies.

On successful completion of the Drama major sequence, students should have the following discipline-specific skills:

an ability to develop individual vocal technique and voice production

an ability to understand and respond to the technical, expressive and/or compositional demands of a range of performance styles and genres

an ability to successfully achieve performance realisation based on chosen compositional and performance strategies

an ability to analyse, compose and collaborate in order to build effective relationships between actor, director, designer and writer in processes of performance realisation.